MTFB OSCAR UPDATE: BEST PICTURE AND MORE
Here are updated nomination predictions for the Best Picture Direction, International, Animated and Documentary Features. These categories were last predicted on Dec. 2nd. A film's previous rank appears to the right of their names in parentheses. TFF #51 actors/films are in Bold.
BEST PICTURE
1) Anora (1)
2) Conclave (2)
3) Wicked (6)
4) The Brutalist (3)
5) Emilia Perez (4)
6) Dune Part Two (5)
7) A Real Pain (7)
8) A Complete Unknown (-)
9) Sing Sing (10)
10) Nickel Boys (-)
Others: The Substance, September 5 and Gladiator II.
BEST DIRECTION
1) Brady Corbet/The Brutalist (2)
2) Sean Baker/Anora (1)
3) Edward Berger/Conclave (4)
4) Jacques Audiard/Emikia Perez (3)
5) RaMell Ross/Nickel Boys (-)
Others: Jon M. Chu/Wicked, Coralie Fargeat/The Substance and Denis Villenueve/Dune Part Two.
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
1) The Wild Robot (1)
2) Inside Out 2 (2)
3) Flow (5)
4) Wallace and Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl (4)
5) Memoir of a Snail (3)
Others: Moana 2, Piece by Piece and The Lord of the Rings: The War of the Rohirrim.
BEST INTERNATIONAL FEATURE
1) Emilia Perez (1)
2) The Seed of the Sacred Fig (2)
3) I'm Still Here (3)
4) The Girl with the Needle (4)
5) Kneecap (-)
Others: Vermiglio, Dahomey and Flow.
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
1) No Other Land (1)
2) Daughters (2)
3) Sugarcane (3)
4) Will & Harper (-)
5) Black Box Diaries (4)
Others: Dahomey, Soundtrack to a Coup d'Etat and Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story/
CRITICS CHOICE AWARDS NOMINATIONS
The Critics Choice Association announced its nominees for film excellence last Thursday. TFF #51 Conclave tied with Wicked for most nominations at 11. Emilia Perez was right behind at 10. All togther, 14 TFF #51 films accounted for 48 nominations plus an additional nomination for TFF #50 film Janet Planet (Best Young Adult Performance).
Here are the CCA nominations for TFF #51 films:
Conclave (11): Best Picture, Direction, Actor (Fiennes), Supporting Actress (Rossellini), Ensemble, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Production Design, Costumes and Score.
Emilia Perez (10): Best Picture, Foreign Language Film, Direction, Actress (Gascon), Supporting Actress (Saldana), Ensemble, Adapted Screenplay, Song (El Mal), Song (Mi Camino) and Score.
Anora (7): Best Picture, Direction, Actress (Madison), Supporting Actor (Borisov), Ensemble, Original Screenplay and Editing.
Nickel Boys (5): Best Picture, Direction, Supporting Actress (Ellis-Taylor), Adapted Screenplay and Cinematography.
A Real Pain (3): Supporting Actor (Culkin), Original Screenplay and Best Comedy.
Maria (2); Best Actress (Jolie) and Costumes.
Saturday Night (2): Best Comedy and Ensemble.
September 5 (2): Original screenplay and Editing.
The Piano Lesson (1): Best Supporting Actress (Deadwyler).
Better Man (1): Best Visual Effects.
Memoir of a Snail (1): Best Animated Film.
All We Imagine as Light (1): Best Foreign Language Film.
The Seed of the Sacred Fig (1): Best Foreign Language Film.
Will & Harper (1): Best Song (Harper and Will Go West).
PRECURSOR ROUND UP
I took a look at six prominent Oscar pre-cursor nominations/awards to get a feel for what films seem to be hot as we close in on one month before Oscar nominations are announced on Jan. 17th.
Pre-cursors included were:
National Board of Review (NBR)
American Film Institute (AFI)
Golden Globes (GG)
Critics Choice (CC)
Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LA)
New York Film Critics Circle (NY)
Two films hit five of these:
Anora: NBR, AFI, GG, CC, LA (winner)
The Brutalist: AFI, GG, CC, NY (winner), LA (Runner-up)
Three films made four to the lists:
Wicked: NBR (winner), AFI, GG, CC
A Complete Unknown: NBR, AFI, GG, CC
Conclave: NBR, AFI, GG, CC
And five films were named by three of the pre-cursor organizations:
A Real Pain: NBR, AFI, GG
Sing Sing: NBR, AFI, CC
Emilia Perez: AFI, GG, CC
Nickel Boys: AFI, GG, CC
Dune Part Two: AFI, GG, CC
What's next are the Guilds. Producers, Directors, Screen Actors and Writers being the primary ones to look at.
Dates for each of these nominee announcements are:
Jan. 8: Screen Actors Guild and Directors Guild
Jan. 9: Writers Guild
Jan. 10: Producers Guild
NEW NICKEL BOYS TRAILER
Amazon/MGM released a new trailer for RaMell Ross' Nickel Boys on Friday. Here it is from YouTube:
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